This award program is to promote
hiking on the Appalachian Trail with your QRP rigs.

Trail Trip Photos

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Only contacts made after January 1, 2000

are eligible for the
AT Awards.
***

All contacts made during contest other
than the ones below will not count towards any award.

NEW Contacts made during any of the following contests will be allowed! NEW

All the
below contest have portable categories to promote Portable operations in the
Outdoors. If you know of any other contest that promotes portable operations
outdoors please drop me an e-mail with the contest name.

Spartan Sprints

Monthly QRP Field Day

FYBO in Feb.

Winter Fireside SSB Sprint (QRP ARCI) in Feb.

QRP To The Field in April

LAITF Contest (W2AGN) in May

Hootowl Sprint (QRP ARCI) in May

mW
Field Day (QRP ARCI) in June

The Great Colorado Gold Rush in July

Flight Of The Bumblebees in July

Summer Homebrew Sprint (QRP ARCI) in July

Bubba Sprint in August

New England QRP A Field in Sept.

Topband Sprint (QRP ARCI) in Dec.

Holiday Spirits Homebrew Sprint (QRP ARCI) in Dec.

Polar Bear Moon Light Madness Trips Winter months

You can be
out or at home to operate and pick up contacts towards any of the AT Awards.

All contacts do not have to be
made from the same operating location for the home or trail stations.

All Amateur Radio operators are
eligible for the awards on the HF and WARC bands in the CW, SSB, Digital
and Mixed modes.

Contacts that are made on the Appalachian Trailwhile on the state borders
will be allowed. One QSO with a station on a border will count as two states. Please make a notation of this in your logs.

** Note: You do
not have to be exactly on the State line. The Appalachian Trail does run through rivers. I
would not want anyone to have to canoe to the middle of a river to operate from the
trail.**

Contacts that are made on the Appalachian Trail do not have to be directly
on the trail. You can set up your station within 100 yards of
the trail or at any shelter for
the Appalachian Trail System.

There will be five different
types of awards with a picture of the trail running through the 14 states.

All awards will have their own
consecutive serial number starting with number one.

**New
When you apply for the
certificates we are asking for $2 to cover the cost of mailer and postage. There
will be a small charge for plaques which will be announced at a later date.**

Coordinating weekends during the summer months for stations to be active on the Appalachian
Trail is very hard to do. So when stations do go out on the AT we ask you post a
message on ATRAIL, QRP-F & QRP-L.

To download the Adobe
PDF files you need the Adobe Reader. Click on the icon and
download the Adobe PDF Reader.

New York, North Carolina,
Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia and West Virginia.

**Note** If you have a problem receiving a QSL card from any of the stations that
were on the Appalachian Trail we
have a solution for you. View and print this generic Appalachian Trail QSL card at a high
resolution and fill in all the information for them. Then send the QSL to them with an
SASE. Ask them to write in their location from the Appalachian Trail and sign the bottom line on the card and send it back to you.